42postpositiveSlangtotally exhaustedSee also→
beat down→
beat up(Old English beatan; related to Old Norse bauta, Old High German bozan)♦
beatableadj

beat downvbadv

1trInformalto force or persuade (a seller) to accept a lower priceI beat him down three pounds

2intr(of the sun) to shine intensely; be very hot

Beat Generationnfunctioning as sing or pl

1members of the generation that came to maturity in the 1950s, whose rejection of the social and political systems of the West was expressed through contempt for regular work, possessions, traditional dress, etc., and espousal of anarchism, communal living, drugs, etc

2a group of U.S. writers, notably Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs, who emerged in the 1950s

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